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Let no one think that winter is already over. At least this is what the white, snowy landscape tells us, which we can still find in Cantonigròs, a population entity in the municipality of L’Esquirol, in the Osona region.
As can be seen in these images in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos, the image is totally wintery, transmitting a bucolism among the snow that reminds us of typical Christmas postcards.
But we are at the beginning of March, in the final stretch of a winter that has left us with generally mild temperatures, with hardly any rain, in addition, so these images of Cantonigròs even seem taken from other times.
The origins of Cantonigròs are very similar to those of L’Esquirol, but somewhat later. The original nucleus was a hostel created by Antoni Prat, also called “Toni Gros”, to welcome travelers who made the royal road from Vic to Olot.
Being about 1000 meters high, “for a long time it was recommended as a place of convalescence.” Currently it is an important summer resort.
Here we find the church of Sant Roc de Cantonigròs, a temple built in 1854, which was expanded in 1861 and which in 1945 became an independent parish. But, this town is well known for one of its most beautiful natural landscapes, Foradada,
